[f. ADORE + -ER1.]
1. One who adores; a worshipper; a votary.
1602. Warner, Albion’s Eng., XIII. lxxvii. (1612), 318. Iupiter … of whom euen his Adorers write euill Taches many an one.
1615. Beaum. & Fl., Cupid’s Rev., I. i. (T.). Adorers of that drowsy deity.
1667. Milton, P. L., IX. 143. And thinner left the throng Of his adorers.
1850. Merivale, Rom. Emp., V. xlii. 12. Which had … driven his adorers from his shrine with blows and menaces.
2. fig. An ardent admirer, a lover.
1611. Shaks., Cymb., I. iv. 74. I professe my selfe her Adorer, not her Friend.
1665. Glanville, Scep. Sci., 70. And who that adorer of Des-Cartes that professeth Scepticism?
a. 1704. T. Brown, Wealth, Wks. 1730, I. 86. They were fain of accusers, to become the adorers of Scipio.
1853. Miss Mitford, in L’Estrange’s Life, III. xiv. 256. As to the adorers of Alfred Tennyson, they unluckily haunt one at all seasons.
